Two persons who allegedly engaged in fraudulent enlistment have been arrested by the police at Adjen Kotoku and Fise in the Ga West municipality.
They are Francis Esselfie, a senior account officer at the Ga-North Municipal Hospital and Emmanuel Andrews Dougan, also known as Orlando, a manger at a guest house at Fise.
The two were reported to have taken a total amount of GH¢7,000 from their victims to enlist them into the Ghana Police Service and the Ghana Immigration Service, but failed to do so.
The two are in police custody assisting in investigation, the Amasaman Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Francis Yiribaare, told the Ghanaian Times in Accra yesterday
He said on January 14, at about 11:30p.m., a trader at Fise near Amasaman reported that somewhere in December 2018, Esselfie introduced himself as a medical doctor at the Ga-West Municipal Hospital and took GH¢3000 from her, promising to use it to facilitate the recruitment of her son into the security service.
According to Chief Supt Yiribaare, Esselfie told her he had connection with high ranking officers in the Ghana Police Service and the Ghana Immigration Service, and could help enlist people through protocol.
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He said after the victim gave him the money, the suspect gave her a letter of appointment for the son to report at the Regional Police Training School in the Eastern Region on February 15, to commence training but she suspected the letter was fake.
Chief Superintendent Yiribaare said the police arrested Esselfie and Dougan at separate hideouts in Adjen Kotoku and Fise, who admitted to defrauding about three persons including the complainant of an amount totaling GH¢7,000.
The Commander said investigation had established that Esselfie was senior accounts officer at the Ga-North Municipal Hospital but not a medical officer as he claimed.
Chief Supt Yiribaare said two victims had contacted the police on hearing the arrest and were proceeding from the Brong-Ahafo and Western Region to Accra to assist in investigation, and urged the public to report to the police such suspicious people.
By Agnes Opoku Sarpong
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